IP Watchdog

SEPTEMBER 6, 2021

Despite these differences, we noted that these two concepts have often been treated interchangeably by courts, often leading to confusing results.

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Plagiarism Today

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

1: Megan Roup Seeks Dismissal in Fitness Routine Copyright, Contract Lawsuit. According to Anderson, she trained Roup in the techniques and Roup has gone on to offer her own services, leading to a lawsuit over alleged copyright infringement, false designation of origin, breach of contract and unfair competition claims.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

MARCH 25, 2024

If the case stands on appeal, Twitter will write a check to CCDH to compensate it for the litigation harms Twitter has imposed on it. In a highly technical ruling, the court rejects Twitter’s CFAA claim on a motion to dismiss and rejects Twitter’s other claims, including breach of contract, on an anti-SLAPP motion to strike.

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Nelligan Law

FEBRUARY 14, 2025

Ultimately, the buyers alleged in the litigation that they heard nothing for six (6) months and thought the deal was dead. For sellers, it highlights the importance of keeping detailed records and continuing to act in accordance with the contract.

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Patently-O

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

Stroud is General Counsel at Unified Patents – an organization often adverse to litigation-funded entities. [1] litigation finance boom of the past 20 years—as has been widely reported, private equity now undergirds huge swaths of U.S. Guest post by Jonathan Stroud. Patent assertion finance today is a multibillion-dollar business. [2]

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Traverse Legal Blog

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

Enrico Schaefer, Copyright & Litigation Attorney. Even in situations where a business owner contracts a third-party web designer to build their website, both the business and the web designer can be held liable for copyrights violated if they are used on your website. Infringement can be willful or accidental.

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The IPKat

MARCH 31, 2025

Intended to offer a thorough introduction to European IP law, the course will be covering key topics like: EU and international legal framework Trade marks and designs, including the EU design reform Geographical indications, including for handicraft products Copyright and the digital age Patent law, SPCs, the Unified Patent Court and patent litigation (..)

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

AUGUST 11, 2023

Another 3k+ word post about the jurisprudential chaos in online contract formation law. In re: StubHub Refund Litigation , No. But ultimately, the onus is on Disney to create a contract formation process so conspicuous that a court can’t reach decisions like this. This legal standard ensures lots of meritless litigation.

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IP Law 360

MARCH 13, 2025

and his father to settle the company's contract dispute, resolving litigation that temporarily barred Harrison's jersey number 18 from officially being sold, according to court documents filed in New York state court Thursday. Fanatics has cut a confidential deal with Arizona Cardinals wide receiver Marvin Harrison Jr.

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Plagiarism Today

MARCH 3, 2022

The decision was heavily swayed by the fact that Bell is a “serial litigant” that has filed dozens of similar lawsuits over the course of a decade. 3: Oracle, NEC Resolve Contract, Copyright Dispute Over Database Software.

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Plagiarism Today

MAY 18, 2022

However, that prompted the Public Citizen Litigation Group to step in. According to NetEase, Tencent, through its QQ Music streaming platform, has violated a contract with them by streaming music in provinces where QQ has no license to do so.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

MAY 13, 2024

But by providing a foil in litigation against both the Center for Countering Digital Hate (“CCDH”) and Bright Data (the world’s largest seller of scraped data), he’s given judges in the most important district court in the country for tech legal issues, the Northern District of California, plenty of motivation to rule against him.

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JD Supra Law

JULY 8, 2024

The rise in trade secrets litigation in the electric vehicle (“EV”) sector continues with Tesla filing another lawsuit: this time against its own equipment supplier. for trade secret misappropriation, along with breach of contract and unfair business practices.

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IP Law 360

MARCH 15, 2024

The past week in London has seen Howard Kennedy face legal action by a London hotel chain, former racing boss Bernie Ecclestone and Formula One hit with a breach of contract claim by a Brazilian racecar driver, and a libel row between broadcaster Jeremy Vine and ex-footballer Joey Barton.

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IP Law 360

AUGUST 27, 2021

government over COVID-19 contracts, fashion brand Superdry face off with an online British retail titan and the country's largest milk supplier sue a major supply chain business. This past week in London has seen a renewed pursuit of the U.K.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

OCTOBER 23, 2021

It’s a reminder that you must consider how you will introduce evidence of contract formation in addition to worrying about the contract terms and formation process. “To the extent the contract pertains to use of Peloton’s Services (e.g., ” Thus, the nonparties cannot be swept into the contract.

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IPilogue

MARCH 24, 2022

With that said, contracts should be clearly written, without legal jargon, to avoid litigation. Speaking of consumer protection and putting users first, my time at the Globe also reminded me that, contrary to popular belief, lawyers exist to make their clients’ lives easier.

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BYU Copyright Blog

JANUARY 27, 2025

Four years ago, we first published a post about an intriguing case involving two education consulting firms litigating over an online excerpt published on the website of Lehren Education (Defendant), which Ivy Coach (Plaintiff) alleged had been improperly copied, infringing on its copyrights. Lehren Education, LLC.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

OCTOBER 8, 2022

However, usually, if plaintiffs could provide some evidence of notice that was consistent with how the original contract said it would update the terms, courts would give them the benefit of the doubt, at least at the early stages of litigation. In 2022, plaintiff sued defendant for breach of contract, among other things.

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Intellectual Property Law Blog

MARCH 9, 2022

District Court for the District of Delaware asserting claims against Sarepta for breach of contract and other claims. In its breach of contract claim, Nippon Shinyaku alleged that Sarepta breached the forum selection clause by filing the IPR petitions. Nippon Shinyaku filed a complaint in the U.S. The Federal Circuit disagreed.

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The IPKat

APRIL 25, 2024

Here’s what they write: Generative AI, originality, and the potential role of contract in protecting unoriginal works by Adrian Aronsson-Storrier and Oliver Fairhurst Artificial Kat Over the past two years the IPKat has hosted debate on the question of whether the outputs of generative AI tools are protected under copyright law.

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IP Law 360

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

as part of a settlement of the companies' patent and contract litigation over Wi-Fi routers in the U.S. Netgear Inc. has received $135 million from TP-Link Systems Inc. International Trade Commission and California federal courts.

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SpicyIP

JANUARY 20, 2022

SWA also addresses members’ complaints against producers, directors, broadcasters, studios or even other writers, regarding violation of their contracts, or infringement of their copyright, credit denial, etc. via its Dispute Settlement Committee (DSC). Responsibilities. SWA legal officer has two-fold responsibilities.

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JD Supra Law

MARCH 27, 2025

Commercially reasonable efforts (CRE) provisions are a common feature in technology and life sciences agreements, particularly in development collaborations, licensing deals, and milestone-based contracts. By: Fenwick & West LLP

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

JULY 18, 2023

Moritz College of Law The copyright – contract tension Stewart Brand famously said that information wants to be free. The flexibility of contracts makes them a prime candidate for restricting uses that copyright law leaves unprohibited. That still leaves a rather broad space for contract law to effectively limit the use of information.

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The IPKat

SEPTEMBER 4, 2023

The EUIPO published The Baseline of Trade Secrets Litigation in the EU Member States in 2018. On 28 June 2023, the EUPIO published the follow-up report , Trade Secret Litigation Trends In The EU , focusing on trends in trade secrets litigation since the implementation of the Directive.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

JULY 10, 2021

Represented by Maria Cristina Armenta and Credence Elizabeth Sol, best known for litigating an ultimately unsuccessful censorial “Innocence of Muslims” lawsuit against YouTube, Daniels brought a routine “YouTube-is-censorsing-me” lawsuit seeking to impose must-carry obligations on YouTube.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

OCTOBER 29, 2021

The arbitrator’s decision itself is filed under seal, but the court recaps the arbitrator’s findings: Although the contracts between Plaintiff and Amazon concerning the purchase of the diet pills at issue were illegal and unenforceable, the CoU that governed the transactions were severable and remained enforceable. Trilegiant.

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IP Law 360

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

Following almost nine years of litigation, Georgia manufacturer Universal Alloy Corp. defeated at trial allegations it stole Alcoa's trade secrets and a $200 million contract with Boeing for aircraft wing parts. Here, UAC's lead trial attorneys from Latham & Watkins LLP reveal to Law360 how they did it.

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SpicyIP

MAY 10, 2022

We’re pleased to inform you that Wadhwa Law Chambers headed by Kapil Wadhwa is looking to recruit three Associates for their IP Litigation and IP Prosecution teams. The IP team at Wadhwa Law Chambers headed by Kapil Wadhwa is looking for 2 Associates to join the IP Litigation team & 1 Associate for the Prosecution team.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

JUNE 5, 2024

In February, Meta lost on Partial Summary Judgment against Bright Data on its breach of contract claim. had its breach of contract and CFAA claims against the Center for Countering Digital Hate (“CCDH”) dismissed at the motion to dismiss stage. Here, the court muddles the various contract formation standards. No, it does not.

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IP Law 360

DECEMBER 22, 2022

government's PPE supplier sued over its £122 million contract. The past week in London has seen fresh legal action brought against PrivatBank's former owner Bogolyubov over sham transactions, law firm Farrer & Co launch commercial fraud claims against five major banks, and the U.K.

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IP Law 360

JANUARY 20, 2023

The past week in London has seen Getty Images sue an AI art platform for copyright breaches, former London mayoral candidate Zac Goldsmith sue Mirror Group Newspapers in a confidential information claim, and legal action brought against Budweiser by pub chain JD Wetherspoon in a commercial contracts claim.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

DECEMBER 9, 2022

Or, for that matter, hiQ Labs, who has effectively been run out of business by their ongoing litigation with LinkedIn, and who has been on the losing end of almost every key legal decision in their dispute with LinkedIn. And most website-scraper interactions don’t fit within those scraper-litigation patterns. Just ask BrandTotal.

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IP Law 360

JUNE 30, 2023

The past week in London has seen law firm Simkins LLP hit dot-com investor Robert Bonnier with a breach of contract claim, Russian oligarch and CEO of Nornickel Vladimir Potanin sued for a second time by aluminum giant Rusal, and easyJet’s parent company sue four more companies in trademark claims over the term 'easy.'

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IP Law 360

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

The past week in London has seen the Financial Conduct Authority hoping to put care home Ponzi schemes to bed in separate claims against Lupton Fawcett, a law firm in Leeds, and a social care group, MBi; oil giant Shell in a sticky situation in a claim over pollution in two Nigerian communities; and Plexus Law's former boss suing the personal injury (..)

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JD Supra Law

JUNE 29, 2022

When new entertainment media emerge, a wave of litigation follows. Novel means of exploitation challenge lawyers to interpret contracts and statutes in contexts that were not originally contemplated.

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